Masters Thesis Defense for Aaron Wright
10/17/17 at 10:00 AM
October 9, 2017
Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students,
You are cordially invited to my Masters thesis defense.
Title: A Simulation of LFM Pulse-Doppler Radar and an Application of Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau Wavelets in CFAR Detection
When: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Where: Simrall, Room 432
Candidate: Aaron J. Wright
Degree: Masters, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Committee:
Dr. J. Patrick Donohoe
(Major Professor)
Dr. James E. Fowler
(Committee Member)
Dr. John E. Ball
(Committee Member)
Abstract:
This thesis presents a simulation of an LFM pulse-Doppler radar for surface-to-air applications and compares the performance of multiple CFAR detectors in processing the resulting range-Doppler maps. Each CFAR detector is reviewed and simulated. Their effectiveness in reducing target masking is analyzed. In addition, a new CFAR detector, the RDWT-CA-CFAR detector, is developed that uses the CDF 5/3 wavelet to decompose the range-data of the range-Doppler map along the range dimension and filter the target data from the reference cells, as a means to reduce or eliminate target masking. It is shown that the novel RDWT-CA-CFAR detector performs better in processing range-Doppler maps when compared to the other robust CFAR detectors covered in this project.
Best Regards,
Aaron Wright